domeiccethar

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dī-mikneti (literally “dis-admire”); compare Welsh dirmygu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈmʲekʲəθər/, [doˈmʲekʲeθar]

Verb

do·meiccethar (prototonic ·dimicedar, verbal noun dímiccem, dímicen)

1. to despise
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 21^d3

     Niba dimicthe-se libsi cía·béo i fochidib, ar [is] gloria dúibsi ón

     I should not be despised by you although I may be in sufferings: for this is glory to you

Conjugation

Complex, class A II present, s preterite, a subjunctive, deponent

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	de·mecimm	do·mmeiccither				du·mecetar	di·meccither
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.						du·mmecitis
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.			·rodimicestar
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.			·dimicedar; ·rudimicedar (ro-form)
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative									dimicter
Verbal noun		dímiccem, dímicen
Past participle		dimicthe
Verbal of necessity		dimicthi

Mutation

Mutation of domeiccethar

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·meiccethar also do·mmeiccethar	do·meiccethar pronounced with /-β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do·meiccethar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 777, page 576